Re: Dear Mr Gates, A suggestion to make the CLR Ubiquitous

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> I predict developers will head where the bread and butter is. While the
> market is screaming for .NET, they will head to .NET. If Team System takes
> hold in the Enterprise, the deal is pretty much cemented.

So true; Amen!

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"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP" <NoSpamMgbworld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
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> Interesting idea, but I am fairly certain Bill is not hurting due to
> Sudarshan's refusal to use .NET. I am currently deluged with calls for
> .NET
> positions, which tells me companies are adopting faster than developers.
> One
> of two things will happen:
>
> 1. Developers will get up to speed
> 2. Companies will switch to another development platform
>
> Let's consider #2. What platform?
>
> Java? Risky career move considering the plethora of material showing C#
> performs better. While I am in the camp that believes coding strictly for
> perf is a mistake, a failure after moving to Java would hurt the
> executive's
> career path. There are, of course, areas of the country where this is not
> true; here in Nashville, TN, however, it is a Microsoft town.
>
> COM? CORBA? You now guarantee a platform lock. I do not consider this a
> bad
> idea necessarily, but it has to be considered in the political arena of
> business. Then, what language if you go COM or CORBA? With COM, you have
> VB
> or C++. You can still find VB resources in greater numbers than C++, but
> classic VB is heading out, despite the new MSDN VB6 site
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbrun/). If you head CORBA instead, can you
> find
> enough resources? In some markets, I am sure.
>
> I predict developers will head where the bread and butter is. While the
> market is screaming for .NET, they will head to .NET. If Team System takes
> hold in the Enterprise, the deal is pretty much cemented.
>
> --
> Gregory A. Beamer
> MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
>
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>
>
> "dreams2text@xxxxxxxxx" wrote:
>
>> Check out the article titled : Dear Mr Gates, A suggestion to make the
>> CLR Ubiquitous at http://dreams2text.blogspot.com/
>>
>>


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